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Wedge, October 1995

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LOWRY HILL EAST NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
The Oldest Neighborhood Newspaper in Minneapolis
October 1995
Purple Power to Rule At Palio, October 1
by Audrey Johnson
This year's Palio Festival will be held on Sunday October
1, at Kenwood park. The traditional parade will begin for
all Lowry Hill East residents, kids and grown-ups, 12:15
PM at the Triangle Park between 26th St., Irving and
Euclid.
The Palio is a major fundraising event for the numerous
programs offered at Kenwood. Many children from
Lowry Hill East, both past and present, have participated
in these programs. The Event starts with a parade led by
Festival at Kenwood Park
the police for safety and the route ends at Kenwood Park.
There festival goers will be able to partake of lots of
games and events. There will be food, fire-engine rides, a
moon walk and ball crawl, clowns, raffles, pony rides,
haunted house, music and much more! And new this year,
a "Team Ramp"T an aggressive street in-line skate show
will be held at 2PM ! The Palio runs from 1PM to 4 PM.
As has been the tradition for many years, the Lowry Hill
East pack is the "Purple Squirrels". The Purple
Squirrels can come in anything that moves for the parade,
bikes, trikes, strollers, rollerblades, and decorated floats.
The Purple Squirrels can come to Kenwood Park
building the day before, Saturday September 30, from one
to three PM to decorate their parade transport systems.
Decorations will be provided for free at the park building.
In the last few years the number of Purple Squirrels has
grown. Last year over 75 people made up the Purple Pack.
We haven't won the "smallest Group" award for 2 years!
However, we did win "Best Float", "Best Costume" and
"Best Music"! Let's get the Purple Spirit going even
stronger this year!
Infrastructure Task Force meets to discuss final recommendations
NRP Steering Committee Set
to make Recommendations
by Jan Knutsen & Rhonda Kuehl
On Monday, September 18, the Lowry Hill
East NRP Steering Committee met to discuss
the budgets submitted by the neighborhood
task forces. Each task force submitted cost
estimates for programs they had developed
during the summer. These programs were
prioritized based on whether they should
receive immediate funding by being part of the
first step action plan or whether they should be
funded later in the Neighborhood Action Plan.
The Infrastructure task force is asking for
$12,000 for traffic counts; $27,000 for the
Midtown Greenway Project (29th St.
Bikeway); and $7 to 15,000 for a retaining
wall at 22nd and Lyndale. Other suggestions
included a neighborhood bicycling designing
team, increased lighting, evaluation of the
intersection throating experiment and working
to help fund a parking lot for the Lyn-Lake
area.
Arts and Commerce was heavily lobbied by
area art concerns. Their top priority is to
create affordable housing/work space for
artists. $25,00 has been requested for Art
Space, a group which develops affordable
housing for artists. Other programs presented
for funding in First Step are $50,000 in
matching grants to rehabilitate vacant and
substandard commercial space in the area, a
$25,000 program for planters and signs for the
neighborhood designed by local artists and
$5,000 to support the Hennepin Avenue Study.
Housing proposed a matching grant program
for exterior fix-up-$5 0,000 for the first year,
$25,000 for the second. The second is the
formation of a Lowry Hill East NRP housing
resource center, which would be staffed by
two full time employees and would provide
information on contractors, carpenters,
plumbers, electricians, etc. and provide
referrals to existing city services, loan/grant
programs. It would also work to negotiate
favorable rates with contractors and offer
tenant/landlord grievance procedures and meet
needs for affordable housing.
Youth task force submitted a budget of
$66,000 to go towards the renovation of the
Jefferson School playground. This money will
be matched by the East Isles NRP. Task force
members are also researching (cont. 2)outside
The Dead are Memorialized, Celebrated
with Community-Focused Events,
Concerts, Exhibits in CreArte's
Dia de Los Muertos '95, October 12 -
November 19
From its ancestral beginnings centuries ago in Mexico, Dia de Los
Muertos comes to the Twin Cities in an all out, month-long
community-wide celebration featuring local, national and
international artists in art exhibitions, a procession, an all night vigil, a
sunrise ceremony and feast, live Tex-Mex and Latino music at a
"Dance of the Dead," dance and music concerts, film, poetry and
storytelling, October 9 - November 19. In its first season, last year's
festivities attracted more than 2,000 people in honor of those who've
died. This year's activities are again presented by CreArte — an
organization that brings Chicano and Latino arts and culture to
Minnesota — in collaboration with Intermedia Arts. Most events are
free, open to the public and occur at Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale
Avenue South in Minneapolis, unless otherwise noted. For public
information call 627-4444.
Dia de Los Muertos begins with the opening of an Ofrenda
Exhibition, Thursday, October 12 at Intermedia Arts featuring
colorful, imaginative "ofrendas" (alter offerings) created by seven
Chicano and Latino artists. The exhibition runs through November
19. Then in November during All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day,
Dia de Los Muertos continues with an All Night Vigil, November 1
where a burial site is recreated with personal ofrendas, poetry,
performances and films greeting the sunrise at dawn with a
community feast. Then on November 3 at the Science Museum of
Minnesota, the indigenous instruments and music of Mexico come to
life in A Concert to Miction by Mexican musician Antonio Zepeda.
On November 4 a torch and candlelight community procession lead
by Paztel and the Cuauhtemoc Danzantes and In the Heart of the
Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre takes to the streets of the Whittier
neighborhood, culminating with a Mexica ceremonial dance, a
fireworks display, and the Dance of the Dead. Friday, November 17
features the rhythmic sounds of huapangos, boleros and sones as sung
by Mexican vocalist Dora de Mexico. Related events include an
additional art exhibition running October 30 - December 8 at
Gustavus Adolphus College, a reception and candlelight ceremony at
the college on November 9 and a lecture on the Dia de Los Muertos
tradition by Artist and CreArte Director Armando Gutierrez G.,
November 28.
The origins of Dia de Los Muertos beliefs and rituals are rooted in the
ancient traditions of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, Central and
South America that were later integrated with Catholicism. Mexican
culture views death as an on-going journey into a new realm where
the souls of the dead need food, drink, utensils, trade items and animal
companionship to aid them in their transition into a new realm.
Antithetical to the notion that death is something to be feared, Dia de
Los Muertos helps people to see that death is not final, but a natural
process of life. More recently in the U.S., Dia de Los Muertos has
gone beyond a private, family oriented observance to be (3)

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LOWRY HILL EAST NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
The Oldest Neighborhood Newspaper in Minneapolis
October 1995
Purple Power to Rule At Palio, October 1
by Audrey Johnson
This year's Palio Festival will be held on Sunday October
1, at Kenwood park. The traditional parade will begin for
all Lowry Hill East residents, kids and grown-ups, 12:15
PM at the Triangle Park between 26th St., Irving and
Euclid.
The Palio is a major fundraising event for the numerous
programs offered at Kenwood. Many children from
Lowry Hill East, both past and present, have participated
in these programs. The Event starts with a parade led by
Festival at Kenwood Park
the police for safety and the route ends at Kenwood Park.
There festival goers will be able to partake of lots of
games and events. There will be food, fire-engine rides, a
moon walk and ball crawl, clowns, raffles, pony rides,
haunted house, music and much more! And new this year,
a "Team Ramp"T an aggressive street in-line skate show
will be held at 2PM ! The Palio runs from 1PM to 4 PM.
As has been the tradition for many years, the Lowry Hill
East pack is the "Purple Squirrels". The Purple
Squirrels can come in anything that moves for the parade,
bikes, trikes, strollers, rollerblades, and decorated floats.
The Purple Squirrels can come to Kenwood Park
building the day before, Saturday September 30, from one
to three PM to decorate their parade transport systems.
Decorations will be provided for free at the park building.
In the last few years the number of Purple Squirrels has
grown. Last year over 75 people made up the Purple Pack.
We haven't won the "smallest Group" award for 2 years!
However, we did win "Best Float", "Best Costume" and
"Best Music"! Let's get the Purple Spirit going even
stronger this year!
Infrastructure Task Force meets to discuss final recommendations
NRP Steering Committee Set
to make Recommendations
by Jan Knutsen & Rhonda Kuehl
On Monday, September 18, the Lowry Hill
East NRP Steering Committee met to discuss
the budgets submitted by the neighborhood
task forces. Each task force submitted cost
estimates for programs they had developed
during the summer. These programs were
prioritized based on whether they should
receive immediate funding by being part of the
first step action plan or whether they should be
funded later in the Neighborhood Action Plan.
The Infrastructure task force is asking for
$12,000 for traffic counts; $27,000 for the
Midtown Greenway Project (29th St.
Bikeway); and $7 to 15,000 for a retaining
wall at 22nd and Lyndale. Other suggestions
included a neighborhood bicycling designing
team, increased lighting, evaluation of the
intersection throating experiment and working
to help fund a parking lot for the Lyn-Lake
area.
Arts and Commerce was heavily lobbied by
area art concerns. Their top priority is to
create affordable housing/work space for
artists. $25,00 has been requested for Art
Space, a group which develops affordable
housing for artists. Other programs presented
for funding in First Step are $50,000 in
matching grants to rehabilitate vacant and
substandard commercial space in the area, a
$25,000 program for planters and signs for the
neighborhood designed by local artists and
$5,000 to support the Hennepin Avenue Study.
Housing proposed a matching grant program
for exterior fix-up-$5 0,000 for the first year,
$25,000 for the second. The second is the
formation of a Lowry Hill East NRP housing
resource center, which would be staffed by
two full time employees and would provide
information on contractors, carpenters,
plumbers, electricians, etc. and provide
referrals to existing city services, loan/grant
programs. It would also work to negotiate
favorable rates with contractors and offer
tenant/landlord grievance procedures and meet
needs for affordable housing.
Youth task force submitted a budget of
$66,000 to go towards the renovation of the
Jefferson School playground. This money will
be matched by the East Isles NRP. Task force
members are also researching (cont. 2)outside
The Dead are Memorialized, Celebrated
with Community-Focused Events,
Concerts, Exhibits in CreArte's
Dia de Los Muertos '95, October 12 -
November 19
From its ancestral beginnings centuries ago in Mexico, Dia de Los
Muertos comes to the Twin Cities in an all out, month-long
community-wide celebration featuring local, national and
international artists in art exhibitions, a procession, an all night vigil, a
sunrise ceremony and feast, live Tex-Mex and Latino music at a
"Dance of the Dead," dance and music concerts, film, poetry and
storytelling, October 9 - November 19. In its first season, last year's
festivities attracted more than 2,000 people in honor of those who've
died. This year's activities are again presented by CreArte — an
organization that brings Chicano and Latino arts and culture to
Minnesota — in collaboration with Intermedia Arts. Most events are
free, open to the public and occur at Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale
Avenue South in Minneapolis, unless otherwise noted. For public
information call 627-4444.
Dia de Los Muertos begins with the opening of an Ofrenda
Exhibition, Thursday, October 12 at Intermedia Arts featuring
colorful, imaginative "ofrendas" (alter offerings) created by seven
Chicano and Latino artists. The exhibition runs through November
19. Then in November during All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day,
Dia de Los Muertos continues with an All Night Vigil, November 1
where a burial site is recreated with personal ofrendas, poetry,
performances and films greeting the sunrise at dawn with a
community feast. Then on November 3 at the Science Museum of
Minnesota, the indigenous instruments and music of Mexico come to
life in A Concert to Miction by Mexican musician Antonio Zepeda.
On November 4 a torch and candlelight community procession lead
by Paztel and the Cuauhtemoc Danzantes and In the Heart of the
Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre takes to the streets of the Whittier
neighborhood, culminating with a Mexica ceremonial dance, a
fireworks display, and the Dance of the Dead. Friday, November 17
features the rhythmic sounds of huapangos, boleros and sones as sung
by Mexican vocalist Dora de Mexico. Related events include an
additional art exhibition running October 30 - December 8 at
Gustavus Adolphus College, a reception and candlelight ceremony at
the college on November 9 and a lecture on the Dia de Los Muertos
tradition by Artist and CreArte Director Armando Gutierrez G.,
November 28.
The origins of Dia de Los Muertos beliefs and rituals are rooted in the
ancient traditions of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, Central and
South America that were later integrated with Catholicism. Mexican
culture views death as an on-going journey into a new realm where
the souls of the dead need food, drink, utensils, trade items and animal
companionship to aid them in their transition into a new realm.
Antithetical to the notion that death is something to be feared, Dia de
Los Muertos helps people to see that death is not final, but a natural
process of life. More recently in the U.S., Dia de Los Muertos has
gone beyond a private, family oriented observance to be (3)